EVE Information Portal

I have not explored all of the GUI changes fully to determine if most are good or bad but for exploration of Data/Relic sites it is definitely not for the best in the change. It's challenging enough to hover over and determine which containers are the ones to grab and with the change, the solid based label totally obscures any other container beneath the label that pops up requiring you to go somewhere else on the screen and come back hoping not to pop up the wrong label of the container that is still right next to the one that is unknown.

This needs to be investigated a bit more thoroughly.

Maybe a setting to allow an offset distance by the user would be nice. That way someone could set the distance to their desired level. The offset could be supplemented with a line that extends to the description box so the user at least knows which item is being referenced.

Personally a placeable information console like segment that would list the last object hovered over with a setting for the amount of detail the user wants would be nice. One would hover over an object and the info screen would update dynamically with text only related information such as item, name, etc.

The effort to improve the UI is greatly appreciated but some of this last update was a swing and miss having read some of the above posts.

Sure. A sense of humour is very important. I actually appreciated yours.

That aside, a couple of questions were asked about the timing of the most pressing tweaks and fixes: the answer is that we are looking to release the initial set in terms of days. We're certainly not constrained to wait for Kronos.

The current list is in my earlier post.

As an additional thought.


In a placeable information console, you could also place a details button that would bring up the full information page of any said item. That way the brief description console wouldn't be cluttered with the details that is normally found in the full information console.

You'd have thought that the company responsible for the boot.ini fiasco (probably the worse deployment bug in the entire history of games software development), Incana and Monoclegate would have learnt at least one or two things in the area of deployment testing and listening to your customers.

However, it's a testament to CPP's terrible reputation for ignoring their customers that I for one am not in the slightest bit surprised to see them turn a deaf ear to the truth that they canot take, namely that the new tooltips (especially the ones in space and on the overview) are absolutely shocking, in some cases game breaking, and no one wants them.

It's also a testament to their reputation for atrocious QA and deployment testing that the tooltips in space which show your corp/alliance ticker (e.g. wrecks) are malformed and have one of the square brackets that's supposed to surround the ticker at the wrong end of the tooltip. It's downright laughable, I test my own company internal only software better than these jokers test crap they release to tens of thousands of paying customers.

I only resubbed a month ago after a 3 year break. But when I saw how CCP treated the players over the forced on scanner overlay I was already in two minds as to whether to stay. Compound that with this slap in the face, an upcoming summer expansion that has almost no content and a change to monthly releases of what's certain to be untested dross and I can't see me sticking around for long.

Never mind, plenty of other good sci-fi games coming out this year.

I'd like to be able to disable the tooltips please. I'm amazed you think I want or need them after ten years of play.

PLEASE just change it back to the way it was? im an explorer and all i do are relic/date sites. they are just not fun anymore with the new tooltips. i dont even wanna leave the station until its fixed.

Well damn it then. I'm off to start placing post it notes all around the house.

This is a door, it leads to the kitchen.

This is a door handle, press it to open the door to the kitchen.

This is the kitchen....... etc etc.

Then I'll let you know what my wife and kids think of my idea and just how long it lasts.

LOL awesome response.

By refusing to revert these changes and then making a comment like that, you are really alienating the player base. Good job.

With that attitude, you are obviously not going to be leaving CCP for a better job like the other Devs recently. So we are stuck with you and your mates with the same outlook. Awesome future CCP has.

So if an option to turn this off is not in the cards, you need to rollback the entire thing.

Because these are so intrusive, so clunky, and so onmipresent now that it inhibits gameplay in more than a few ways.

And how it got released to TQ I will never know. So please, roll it back, take it back the drawing board. The vast majority of your players do NOT need this kind of heavy handed tooltip stuff, so it needs to be rethought.

Okay. Clearly we believe different things when it comes to the word 'iteration'. Somehow, I was under the working impression that part of iteration meant gathering feedback from the people who play the game and using that to make the feature better. Selection bias anyone? You don't seem too open to popular or negative feedback here, yet that is essential to iteration. If iteration just means a slower, inexorable, release of features people do not want or like, then that's really not what was described during the fanfest presentations. So basically, not only can most of that not be taken at face value, neither can your claims be. The biggest problem here is that the vast majority is being ignored. Furthermore, you seem adamant about it, when that is counter-intuitive to a real evolutionary iterative process - out with the bad, in with the good. Where is the iteration we were promised, cause I am having a hard time finding it. Why do you even have a forum for feedback if you don't actually listen to any of it?

I want to log in and use the same UI as I did last week. The fact that I can't is irritating, the fact that you don't seem to want to listen to the vast majority who want the same thing is far worse.